barrowload
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]barrowload (plural barrowloads)
- The amount that fills a barrow.
- 1942, Emily Carr, “Grown Up”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
- Thousands of men wheeled millions of barrowloads of earth and rocks for hundreds of weeks—dumping, loading till solid ground was made on which the C.P.R. could found their dream.
- 1959 March, D. Bertram, “An old friend - the 9.7”, in Trains Illustrated, page 139:
- [...] the 9.7 is routed into one of the other platforms to leave Platform No. 8 clear for the "Mail" and save the station staff a hurried transfer of a dozen or more barrowloads of mailbags.